| re: Baker's Wife and Cindy's Prince Question | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 07:56 pm EST 11/13/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Baker's Wife and Cindy's Prince Question - Chromolume 12:51 pm EST 11/13/22 | |
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| She actually DOES say something about her private time with her hubby, the Baker, if you choose to interprete it that way. "Have a child for warmth, and a baker for bread, and a prince for...whatever." She's singing about three different needs here, the need for love, the need for food, and the need for sex. It certainly doesn't seem like she's getting all of those things from one person, let alone the one person who might be expected to provide them, the Baker. And this is AFTER their rapprochment in the first act's "It Takes Two." Of course, they must've had sex at some point during the time jump near the end of the first act to conceive the baby. But dutiful, baby-making sex doesn't seem to be the kind of sex she desires here. Of course, to misquote the Narrator, this was not a time when women had a lot of choices. It could very well be that she married the Baker because she wanted to ensure a future where, if nothing else, she'd be eating regularly. So maybe there never was any love there, but they've grown into the kind of affectionate partnership that we see. She might feel that feeling love toward her husband is not necessary, as long as she loves and is loved by her child. And she may not have even considered the need for passionate sex in her life until a wayward Prince crossed her path unexpectedly. I wonder what their marriage might have been like if she'd survived. She sings that "when you've had an 'and' and you're back to 'or' makes the 'or' mean more than it did before." So maybe she'd have been content after this one brush with "and" and returned to the life of a wife and mother in a small village. Or maybe not. |
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